WILDER, Sarah Ann (Tatum)
Date of death: 15 Apr 1894 – Edinburg, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, April 20, 1894,
Volume XXXIV Number 41, page 6 column 6
FROM OVER THE COUNTY
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NINEVEH.
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The remains of Mrs. Wilder, of Edinburg, were buried in the cemetery at this place, Tuesday. Funeral services were conducted by Elder Small at her late home in Edinburg.
Notes: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 229, referencing Book H-25, page 32, records that Sarah Ann Wilder, a sixty-year-old white female, died 15 Apr 1894 in Edinburg.
In the 1860 US Federal Census for First Division, Madison County, Indiana, twenty-eight-year-old, Tennessee-born Larkin Wilder, his wife twenty-five-year-old, Kentucky-born wife Sarah Wilder, and their children, six-year-old, Indiana-born Matilda F. and ten-month-old, Kentucky-born William S., are living with Sarah’s father, fifty-nine-year-old Samuel S Tatum.
Larkin Wilder enlisted in Company A, Eleventh Kentucky Cavalry on 22 Sep 1862. He died 8 January 1863 while on leave at his residence per the Company Muster rolls.
Thirty-seven-year-old, Kentucky-born widow Sarah Wilder and her nine-year-old Kentucky-born son, William Wilder are recorded on the 1870 US Federal Census for Nineveh, Johnson County, Indiana. Sarah and William are living near Sarah’s daughter, seventeen-year-old Matilda [Wilder] Lane and her husband, nineteen-year-old Overton Lane.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson